Neither midfielder Ander Herrera nor striker Marcus Rashford will be involved in Manchester United’s FA Cup fifth round tie at Huddersfield Town on Saturday. Both players are suffering from undisclosed muscular problems, which kept them out of action in the 1-0 loss at Newcastle United last weekend.

It is hoped that the duo will both be fit in time for next week’s UEFA Champions League round of 16 clash versus Sevilla. Wednesday night will see United travel to Spain for the road leg of their knockout round tie with the La Liga side. Mourinho said on Friday, during his news conference that the duo is ruled for this weekend, but could be back for midweek.

Manchester United central defender Eric Bailly will officially be back in action tomorrow at Huddersfield Town in the FA Cup fifth round clash. Both the club and manager Jose Mourinho have confirmed that the Ivory Coast international has recovered from his ankle injury and subsequent surgery, which has kept him out of action since November.

Bailly, who has missed United’s last 21 competitions, was projected to return in March, or perhaps the end of February. Thus, he’s back well ahead of schedule. It’s also not a moment too soon, as the central defense has really been suffering lately.

The Portugese was quite zealous in the manner with which he defended his midfielder, the specific position he plays him in, and the health of his relationship with him. It all began when a reporter queried Mourinho about all the “speculation” surrounding the player-coach-relationship. Mourinho didn’t care for the word “speculation,” as he sees that term to be rather mollifying and inaccurate.

Manchester United Manager Jose Mourinho met the media a few hours ago to preview tomorrow’s match at Huddersfield Town A.F.C. in the fifth round of the FA Cup. We have video of the media session for you here below via YouTube.

There were a whole host of topics covered in this news conference, including: how Paul Pogba has been handling his demotion, how journalists have been covering the Pogba-Mourinho relationship, “the big lies” Mourinho says the press is currently telling about how he and Pogba get along and much much more.

Manchester United will be sans Marouane Fellaini, Eric Bailly, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Ander Herrera when they head to St. John’s Stadium to take on Huddersfield Town. This FA Cup fifth round clash means that the two sides will meet for the third time this season. The Red Devils and Terriers split the first two meetings, both coming in Premier League action, so this will be the so-called “rubber match” of the 2017-18 campaign.

Prior to this term, the two clubs had not faced each other in 46 years.

Manchester United return to St. John’s Stadium, scene of one of their worst results this season, as they fell 2-1 to Huddersfield Town back in October. This will be the third meeting between United and Huddersfield this season and second of this month. United bested the Terriers 2-0 on February 3.

United will be sans Eric Bailly, Marouane Fellaini, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Ander Herrera, with Marcus Rashford a doubt. The young striker may return in time, and if so this would be a natural situation for him to make the first team. Since that’s up in the air for now, we left Romelu Lukaku in our predicted starting XI.

The extremely bitter feud between Antonio Conte and Jose Mourinho captivated everybody in the football world early on in 2018, as both men seemed intent on getting the last word in. It’s subsided and quieted for now, but with Chelsea and Manchester United set to clash again 10 days from now in a Premier League fixture, this individual rivalry will be back in the news again soon.

With that in mind, Conte was the subject of a bizarre prank by an Italian TV show today. Conte met the media Thursday ahead of the weekend’s FA Cup fifth round clash against Hull City.

Paul Pogba (or whomever was manning his official Twitter account at the time) posted a very creative and interesting social message for Valentine’s Day. Pogba is well known for his outlandish haircuts, eye-catching hair colorings and sometimes the random objects that are shaved into his hair cuts.

Thus we “Poglove is in the hair,” a variation of the old romantic saying “love is in the air.” The message came complete with a red heart. Enjoy the short video clip below: